The contrast is striking.

While Emmanuel Macron and the government are multiplying the messages to reassure bakers, craftsmen and even individuals in the face of the explosion in energy prices, the President LR of the Senate Gérard Larcher believes that "we will not be able to help everyone ".

A finding that may seem abrupt but that the elected explained on RMC-BFMTV.

“Tomorrow it will be ski resorts without snow, the day after tomorrow other activities… The reality is that today we don't have any leeway.

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"We have spent, between Covid-19, inflation and the energy crisis, 250 billion euros in a country which will borrow 270 billion this year to balance its accounts and repay its debts", continued the second character. of State.

Asked about the principle of "whatever it costs", he replied: "As we say in Berry: 'We do what we can with what we have' and 'whatever we have' today 'today, it's a budget that we voted in December with just over 450 billion euros, which is financed with a 165 billion deficit”.

Decentralize aid

Gérard Larcher, however, defended the various aid granted to local authorities, to small businesses, in particular to bakeries, “a symbol of life in the municipalities”.

But he judges about them "incomprehensible what came out of Bercy: In-com-pré-hen-sible".

"The government did not listen to us enough on the simplicity of the measures, on their accessibility, on the fact that it was necessary to decentralize the help desks at the level of the prefectures of the departments", regretted the President of the Senate.



In addition to Tuesday's announcement of the possibility of postponing the payment of taxes and contributions, and of terminating its electricity contract free of charge in the event of a sudden increase, the executive must send a "personalized" letter to the bakers of France to encourage them to take advantage of the already existing aid to which they have little recourse.

Representatives of restaurateurs must be received at the end of the afternoon in Bercy.

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